Practice of designing buildings (12)

I believe the answer is:

architecture

(Other definitions for architecture that I've seen before include "Style of building design" , "Art of designing buildings etc" , "Structural design" , "principles of design" , "Branch of design Goethe called frozen music" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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